waiting...

...for evelynn to come! this has been the biggest test of patience EVER!!!! waiting for all these things to happen is nerve-wrecking! i feel like a child who is staring at her birthday present, but cant open it until someone says its ok... grr!!!!

evelynn's bedroom

so we finally have all the non-baby stuff out of the room and it's basically set up and ready to go. there are a few minor details missing but i figure she won't care about those things. plus being the non-interior decorator that i am...i'm still wondering what to put on the walls. as long as she has food and a clean diaper she'll be happy. she probably won't even care about clothes since it's blazing hot! :] but nevertheless....here it is. (i wish the curtain was up so i could get the whole picture (and ya'll too!)...oh well.

could this be...

so i googled "tattoo baby" and some funny pictures came up. i was actually looking for a picture to send to a friend whose daughter draws all over herself with marker. but instead i found this...
i had to sit and giggle for a minute and only imagining what we would do if evelynn came out looking like this! Ha... it would be hard to have a child who has cooler tattoos than you. i know steven would be jealous of her ship! funny stuff... only 11 weeks to go until we get to meet evelynn and see her eyes, ears, hair, nose, fingers, toe, everything!!! cant wait to meet her! :]

a first for steven...

so at Christmas my mom put those wash cloth towels that are shaped like something in our stockings (yes we still get stockings!). these ones were shaped like mickey's head and you had to put it under hot water to make it unfold.

steven was going through his stuff and found his. he asked what it was! i was sooo surprised he had never seen or used one of these before. i could not let this go on any more! we grabbed it and went straight to the bathroom. im sure there were more important things to get done, but this had to be dealt with!!! of course as he warmed up the water i grabbed the camera to document this momentous occasion! so here are a few pictures (3 months after Christmas) to show you steven's first towel expanding experience!

1...the towel in its last moments of looking like mickey mouse's head!

2...steven holding it under the water and being ever so patient for the towel to be soft!

3...the stiffness is going away and steven is starting to see the actual towel

4...can you just feel the excitement in his face to see his new towel!! :]

so there you have it. the exciting times of our lives! i have been trying to get this up on here for the longest time. and wah-lah! i got it done! i hope you have had this exciting experience!!
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we are alive...all three of us!

let me dust off this blog so i can give the whole handful of you guys an update... even though you probably know it all!

so we are now 20 weeks pregnant (itll be 21 on friday). we found out last friday, 3/6, that we are having a girl. hopefully thatll be confirmed 100% next month! when we went for the ultrasound our little bun in the oven was very active (and i feel none of it!!). she was doing sumersaults and covering her face with her arms. grrr! so when we go back next month the doc is going to do another ultrasound to go over things again and to hopefully check her parts again! :]

i have been trying to be good and not go into the baby section...too much! i havent gotten into too much trouble! im quite proud. i know that this little girl is going to be spoiled rotten by everyone so i probably wont have to do much besides feed her! :]

aside from the baby, our lives are staying busy. steven is working tons of hours right now (thank God) and is raking in the overtime. I try and get lots done on saturdays when he is working. as for me, the school year seemed to pick up and get really busy ten weeks before the school year ended. im wondering how that works. i have received a handful of new students. which means working them into the flow we already had going on, paperwork, and meetings. but they are lots of fun. im also trying to get progress reports done and a 6 page report for my students who are going to kindergarten next year...and have meetings for each of those kids! oh the joys of paperwork, meetings, and business! its been a fun experience though and im going to miss it next year. but ill be able to spend lots of time with our little girl!

pictures will be coming soon...do not worry!

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"family" pictures...

so yesterday afternoon we went around town and took some "family" pictures. it feels weird saying family cause its only the two of us...for now. so we loaded up shannon and her camera and started driving around. here are some of the pictures we took...if you want to see more you can head over to our myspace pages. or perhaps my facebook once i get to uploading them on there. enjoy!!!

happy thanksgiving...

so being the preschool teacher that i am, i had to come up with a cute little project for my kids to do for thanksgiving. what better than turkeys. before i get to the turkey part i must tell you... at the beginning of the year i sent home a letter letting parents know things were going awesome with the kids and a little list of some things would could use in the classroom. one of those needed items were the cardboard rolls from toilet paper. so since i have dont that i have a 3'x3' drawer full of toilet paper and paper towel cardboard rolls! a the time i sent the letter home i had NO idea what i would do with the rolls but i knew something would come up. this was the project to come up!
with a little paint, turkey face cutouts, glue, and coffee filters...ta-da! you get a fabulous looking turkey. so i had to make one as a sample to show the kids what we were making. well at the end of the day, chelsey and michelle wanted to make a turkey also. so after we got some work done they sat down with all their supplies and made their turkeys. here are all of our turkeys hanging out together. so from left to right we have: gideon, fredina, and... i forgot michelles turkeys name! oops...
i love the ladies i have in my room. they are so much fun. here are the three of us with our awesome looking turkeys....
so to you and yours...happy thanksgiving! (i could probably direct this straight to you aimee since youre probably the only one who actually reads my nonsense!)